On 18 Dec, 10:42, "Wally" wrote:
I noticed that some other allotment holders had
broad beans early this year, when I asked was told
that they was planted in the autumn and overwintered,
so I planted some myself this autumn.

Went to check how things was progressing and found
that the frost has knocked them flat.

Should I have done something to protect them and will
they pick up ??

There are no other gardeners about to ask this weather.

Wally

You sowed them too early - you'd probably get away with re-sowing now
as soon as this frost goes. From a late November sowing they don't
come through here until around Christmas. Newly germinated seedlings
seem to be far more frost resistant than older plants. It only gives
us a slight advance but the crop does tend to miss the worst of the
blackfly.